The WarsPenguin Books, 1979 - 190 pages Robert Ross, a sensitive nineteen-year-old Canadian officer, went to war--The War to End All Wars. He found himself in the nightmare world of trench warfare, of mud and smoke, of chlorine gas and rotting corpses. In this world gone mad, Robert Ross performed a last desperate act to declare his commitment to life in the midst of death. |
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... road went off in two directions here . One fork led to the north - east and Ypres - the other angled to the south by a very few degrees and led to Wytsbrouk . It was this road that Robert's convoy took . Most of the large guns and ...
... road went off in two directions here . One fork led to the north - east and Ypres - the other angled to the south by a very few degrees and led to Wytsbrouk . It was this road that Robert's convoy took . Most of the large guns and ...
Page 174
... road . There was also a growing static convoy of vehicles and wagons and guns that had been destroyed . The Pioneers worked the roads from dawn to dusk but the most they could do was keep them open . They could not do more than remove ...
... road . There was also a growing static convoy of vehicles and wagons and guns that had been destroyed . The Pioneers worked the roads from dawn to dusk but the most they could do was keep them open . They could not do more than remove ...
Page 175
... road came up from this region , cutting into the road to Bailleul to the rear of Wytsbrouk and this road was filled with exhausted troops and with a steady flow of walking wounded . As almost had to be the case where so many men had ...
... road came up from this region , cutting into the road to Bailleul to the rear of Wytsbrouk and this road was filled with exhausted troops and with a steady flow of walking wounded . As almost had to be the case where so many men had ...
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